London Ambulance Service
The LONDON AMBULANCE SERVICE (LAS) is a
National Health ServiceNational Health Service trust
that is responsible for answering and responding to medical
emergencies within
LondonLondon , such as 999 emergency response and getting
help to those who need it as quickly as possible. It is one of the busiest ambulance services in the world, and the
busiest in the United Kingdom, providing care to more than 8.6 million
people, who live and work in London. The service is currently under
the leadership of Chief Executive Officer Garrett Emmerson. The
service employs around 4,500 staff
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List Of United Kingdom Parliament Constituencies
An ELECTORAL DISTRICT (also known as a CONSTITUENCY, LEGISLATIVE
DISTRICT, RIDING, WARD, DIVISION, ELECTORAL AREA, or ELECTORATE) is a
territorial subdivision for electing members to a legislative body .
Generally, only voters (constituents) who reside within the district
are permitted to vote in an election held there. From a single
district, a single member or multiple members might be chosen. Members
might be chosen by a first-past-the-post system or a proportional
representative system, or another voting method entirely. Members
might be chosen through a direct election under universal suffrage ,
an indirect election , or another form of suffrage
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Emergency Medical Services In The United Kingdom
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM provide emergency
care to people with acute illness or injury and are predominantly
provided free at the point of use by the four National Health Services
of England , Scotland , Wales , and
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland . Emergency care
including ambulance and emergency department treatment is free to
everyone, regardless of immigration or visitor status. The NHS commissions most emergency medical services through the 14
NHS organisations with ambulance responsibility across the UK (11 in
England, 1 each in the other three countries). As with other emergency services, the public normally access
emergency medical services through one of the valid emergency
telephone numbers (either 999 or 112 )
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Metropolitan Police Service
The METROPOLITAN POLICE SERVICE (MPS), formerly and still commonly
known as the METROPOLITAN POLICE, formally called the METROPOLITAN
POLICE FORCE, and informally referred to as THE MET, is the
territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater
LondonLondon , excluding the "square mile" of the
City of London , which is
the responsibility of the
City of London Police .
The MetThe Met also has significant national responsibilities, such as
co-ordinating and leading on UK-wide national counter-terrorism
matters, and the protection of the senior members of the British Royal
Family , and also members of The Cabinet and other ministerial members
of Her Majesty\'s Government . As of March 2016, the Met employed 43,272 full-time personnel. This
included 32,125 sworn police officers, 9,521 police staff, and 1,626
non-sworn police community support officers
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Fire Services In The United Kingdom
The FIRE SERVICES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM operate under separate
legislative and administrative arrangements in
England and WalesEngland and Wales ,
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland , and
ScotlandScotland . Emergency cover is provided by over fifty fire and rescue services
(FRS), which is the term used in modern legislation and by government
departments. Many FRS were previously known as brigades or county
fire services, but almost all now use the standard terminology. They
are distinct from and governed by a fire authority , which is the
legislative, public and administrative body, made up of civilians
(usually members of elected local or regional bodies). Fire
authorities in
England and WalesEngland and Wales (and formerly Scotland), and
therefore fire and rescue services, receive a large proportion of
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Cities Of London And Westminster (UK Parliament Constituency)
CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER is a constituency returning a single
Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons in the United
Kingdom Parliament . It is a borough constituency for the purposes of
election expenses and type of returning officer. As with all
constituencies, the election is decided using the first past the post
system of election. Since its creation at the 1950 general election ,
the constituency has always elected the candidate nominated by the
Conservative Party . It has been represented since 2001 by Mark Field
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Kensington (UK Parliament Constituency)
In modern politics and history, a PARLIAMENT is a legislative ,
elected body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three
functions: representing the electorate , making laws, and overseeing
the government via hearings and inquiries. Although some restrict the use of the word parliament to
parliamentary systems , it is also commonly used to describe the
legislature in presidential systems (e.g. the French parliament ),
even where it is not in the official name. Historically, parliaments included various kinds of deliberative,
consultative, and judicial assemblies, e.g. mediaeval parlements
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Geographic Coordinate System
A GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATE SYSTEM is a coordinate system used in
geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a
set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are often chosen
such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position , and two
or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position . A common
choice of coordinates is latitude , longitude and elevation . To specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map
projection
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Charing Cross
CHARING CROSS (/ˌtʃærɪŋ ˈkrɒs/ ) denotes the junction of
Strand ,
Whitehall and
Cockspur Street , just south of Trafalgar
Square in central London . It gives its name to several landmarks,
including
Charing Cross railway station , one of the main London rail
terminals .
Charing Cross is named after the
Eleanor cross that stood on the
site, in what was once the hamlet of Charing. The site of the cross
has been occupied since 1675 by an equestrian statue of King Charles I
. A loose Victorian replica of the medieval cross, the Queen Eleanor
Memorial Cross , was erected a short distance to the east outside the
railway station. Until 1931, "Charing Cross" referred to the part of
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